Slavery
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Nemesis comes to Charlottesville
As Americans gleefully melt down statues of Confederate leaders, they may soon discover that iconoclasm is no road to civic peace
Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
What are your links to slavery?
Some of those connected with the slave trade by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have only the most tenuous of associations
How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
Blood money
If abolition was capitalist propaganda, what of corporate involvement in social justice?
Nothing ventured
Why the statue-smashers can’t tolerate civil society
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Fifth Column
Goldsmiths University wants to topple the men who saved England